I was thinking parts of (neighboring) Cumberland County myself.

Whoever downvoted this: is there another area where they say yinz? I'm not mad, merely curious. I was under the impression that SW PA was the only area they used yinz.

That's a Pittsburgh area word. (Where my extended family is from as well.)

Update: I've been singing this commercial to myself all season long. My partner (non-Pennsylvanian) even caught me in the act and I had to explain it to him. :D

Yeah, they sang 2 Mega Millions (or was it Merry Millions?) whereas I remember it from my childhood as "2 Instant Games".

Call me a traitor but as a born & raised Pennamite who has lived my adult life in MD and VA... I've long thought the whole Delmarva peninsula should just be Delaware.

But, uh, keep your hands off the rest.

I didn't realize how much I've missed seeing that commercial (having moved out of PA over 20 years ago) until now. Thanks for the nostalgia! <3

Okay, what makes it cool?

Why? (Like, I'm genuinely asking.)

My parents (both born & raised there) couldn't wait to leave. I've been there plenty of times (spent weeks there every summer) and... yeah...

This is true, but the idea that you HAVE to have a green sky to have a tornado is more what's in question here. The absence of a green sky does NOT mean the absence of a tornado, and to bet on that means you could end dead.

Science has proven her wrong. You can find more websites on it if you like.

Being wrong at this means she could be DEAD wrong.

You grew up in my neck of the woods! Cumberland County represent! I grew up between Boiling Springs and Mount Holly Springs.

Even her own state says that's a myth. https://iowaweather.com/what-does-a-green-sky-mean/

There's Central, and then there's SOUTH Central. People in SC drop the word "South" for shortness; it's implied. Even we would admit that true "just Central" PA is, as you said, State College.

Plus, Harrisburg is the political capital of the state, so in that manner, it's central. With respect, there's nothing up in State College but a big ol' university in a tiny town, mountains and woods. (source: having visited a few times, and my partner is an ex-Nittany Lion.)

Lancaster area is definitely its own thing. My great aunt lives in New Holland and I've had to prep outsiders for what to expect when we go to her area.

York is further EAST, not further west.

I mean, during the 18th century, Carlisle was considered the beginnings of the west, the last settler town before the "frontier", but other than that...

I grew up in Cumberland County.

Lancaster is roughly considered the Eastern most point for South-Central PA. And I think it's lumped in because it forms the whole Harrisburg/Hershey/York/Lancaster area, because Harrisburg is definitely Central. The eastern part of Central, but still Central.

So, like... Cumberland County?

I was born & raised in CC & we definitely identify as South-Central PA or "the mid-state" there. Don't know what that was about.

My mother sent me vids of it snowing (and sticking!) at their house in Cumberland County (south-central PA, near Harrisburg) today. *shaking my head*